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>I think it impossible to compare the doings of an art center in Lincoln,
> Nebraska, with the anthropophagous politics of the USCF, a national
> organization noted for its vicious infighting. My point was right on.
>
> Typically, Mike Nolan misses the nub about Tim Hanke whose chess quarterly
> had
> nothing to do with managing a team of permanent employees; it had to do
> with
> keeping a beautifully done, obviously doomed amateur enterprise on its
> feet.
>
> Management skills at Chess Life are minimal, in truth. Producing literate
> articles, procuring decent photos, covering the major events in a timely
> fashion and making coverage lively (that's called story planning) --
> that's 90
> % of the job. Tim would do just fine in that position.
>
> Mike Nolan writes that Tim Hanke is being attacked for losing his job.
> NONSENSE.
>
> I have seen no attacks on Tim because he lost his job. I've certainly not
> written an adverse word because of it. Nor, so far as I can see, has Sam
> Sloan.
>
> Mike Nolan obviously is trying mightily, in the Randy Bauer tradition, to
> personalize the issue in order to draw attention away from why we cannot
> see
> the contents of the contract between the USCF and Crossville.
>
> And, of course, we still have not been told why this Board could not have
> waited two weeks while a successful, chess-productive businessman such as
> Erik
> Anderson spoke with billionaire Gerry about the prospects for Liberty, New
> York.
>
> The whole business is hilarious. You have people like Randy Bauer and Mike
> Nolan, our house parliamentarian, trying to pick a fight between this
> writer
> and those board members leading the move to Crossville.
>
> It won't work. There is no personal ill-will at all on my part and that
> of,
> say, a Phil Innes. To the extent that personal sympathies play in this
> issue,
> the truth is the opposite.
>
> Once again, for the umpteenth time, a Hanke or a Marinello have overall
> done a
> brilliant job. The issue is not their persons or their work. The issue is
> the
> wisdom of the move to Crossville and keeping Board service and employment
> in
> the USCF office distinct experiences.
>
> I've already been told one shocking intention about the Crossville move,
> which
> I cannot reveal unless I find a source other than the person who told it
> to me.
>
>
> Yours, Larry Parr
>
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> "FIDE has made its decision. Players who refuse to be drug tested will not
> be
> able to play chess." -- Dr. Press, co-founder of the FIDE Medical
> Commission.